{"id":331,"date":"2008-03-16T03:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/03\/16\/saturday-night-cutting\/"},"modified":"2008-03-16T03:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T07:59:00","slug":"saturday-night-cutting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2008\/03\/16\/saturday-night-cutting\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night – cutting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I had a cool productive day.. lots of different low key stuff. Before I described it.. I  had a few pictures from Thursday and Friday that I just found on my camera.. Figure I’ll drop them in just to catch up..    Here’s Thursday’s breakfast. I woke up dreaming about the guacamole that Ann Marie had given me.. Diane had made waffles.. so I made a waffle\/guacamole sandwich , yum..<\/div>\n

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.. and washed it down with a favorite concoction from my youth.  Orange juice and grape juice mixed. I think I’ve descried that in my blog before.. My brother and I were sure that drinking orange juice and grape juice mixed with a green tinker toy would give you super strength. I think it worked on Thursday.. The day was good. <\/div>\n

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A high point was lunch with friend Mark.. We had a ton of work stuff to talk about.. but it turns out we spent most of our sushi time talking about Eckhardt Tolle’s ’A New Earth’ book. <\/div>\n

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The rest of Thursday was pretty low key.. Gabe and I worked together to mount a different set of bindings on his newish board. He really managed to shred his old board this year. I  remember I just put the SamStone map as a blog entry that night.   <\/p>\n

Friday was also pretty nice.. I had an early meeting.. I had to leave while Diane was out wiht the dogs so I left her a message with a cut up strawberry. <\/div>\n

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My meeting was with my good friend Jolly and his co-worker\/friend Scott.   Jolly and I went to grad school together.. which we realized to our mutual amazement was 20 years ago !!!!!!!!.  He’s such a great guy.   It was my first time meeting his friend Scott..   also a very nice guy. Scott’s sister passed away 2 years ago.. so we spent some time talking about her and about Sam. Midway through breakfast we were joined by our mutual friend Scott T… We were brimming with Scotts… <\/div>\n

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The rest of Friday was also pretty good.. I had meetings through the day.. then came home early around  5:30.. a first !. Diane and I had a quiet night at home while Gabe was up at the mountain. I sat around and played around with the text analytics on my blog text..That’s the stuff I wrote about last night. So far no one else thinks it’s as fun as I do.. but I love figuring out what I talked about and when that long hard year. <\/div>\n

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That brings us to today…   I slept late and stumbled downstairs to find that Ratticus.. our resident house rodent had attacked again. We found a whole pack of oatmeal open and dragged halfway down a whole in the floor. I’m thinking of way to catch him\/her. if for nothing else to get a picture.<\/p>\n
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We had a bunch of folks come through today just to say hi. Kevin. Matt, Sumner, Susan, Silas, Brad, Mike,  Tyler, Tom, Heather (?), Liz, Abbot, Phoebe , Chris, Mo-awaka, Mason, .. and later on Max, Emma and Jessie. it was nice to have so many folks around..   It turns out that we have managed to build up a surplus of American Cheese slices.. so we made sure no one left without a piece of cheese. <\/div>\n

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I spent the morning doing odd jobs and repairs around the house. I fixed the drawer under all the sam pictures. It fell apart all of a sudden this week.<\/div>\n

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I also fixed the garage door opener, a few of the kitchen cabinets and the Hoosier<\/div>\n

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It felt good to pretend to be Handy..    Gabe and Ian went up to the mountain.. So Diane and I just hung out.. We went for a run.. then did some yoga.. then took the dogs for a good walk. Chai’s still nursing a lame paw so we had to take it easy.. Just a wonderfully lazy day. <\/p>\n

Late in the afternoon I decided to set up my new torch. It really hadn’t been warm enough to mess around with it. I spent an hour or so reading all the safety material. By the end of that I was sure I was going to blow myself and\/or the barn to bits when I sparked this up. It was funny remembering te reverse threads on the acetylene lines.. you have to suppress a lifetime of ” righty-tighty, lefty loosey ”  <\/span><\/div>\n

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Sumner came buy (driving !) with Susan just as I was about to try my first cut.. so he took some pictures for me.. Here’s the first fuel only flame.. whoa.. BRIGHT !<\/div>\n

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I added the O2 and finally got the thing adjusted to cutting. I got the steel just to kindling and hit the cutting bar.. It’s such a cool shower of sparks as it cuts. <\/div>\n

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The flame moved through the thick steel like it was butter.. I didn’t think it was cutting until my new metal valentine almost fell out.. I started to pick it up.. but it was still glowing.. so I kicked it into the snow.. There was something dramatic about a red hot heart sinking into the snow in hissing plume of steam !<\/div>\n

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Max, Jessie and Emma showed up just as I was doing my cutting. Max and Jessie are on school break. Emma is off this semester.They all decided to come up and visit !. . I was able to catch Max’s first meeting of the puppy !  <\/div>\n

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They seem to be natural litter-mates..   Here’s Diane, Max and Satori viewed through the metal scrap I had just cut the heart from. . <\/div>\n

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It’s soo good seeing Max, Jessie and Emma…!!!!!<\/div>\n

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Soon after they got here some of their friends arrived and we hung out talking all night. <\/div>\n

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It’s only midnight. and most of those kids are drifting towards sleep. I think I better do the same.  It’s been a peaceful day.. I’m grateful for that.
G’nite all. G’nite Sam
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ps. One other thing I did today was play around with a program that takes photographs and represents them using colored  text.    I’m still trying to master it.. But heres a first try.. A picture of Sam using the words “we love you, Sam” . Pretty cool.. no ?<\/div>\n

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